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[The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.] – Historic Reproduction

[The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.], [1907?] — historic photograph
[The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.], [1907?]. Historic photograph from the Savannah collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.]

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The record places this group portrait of an entire Black family at the Hermitage, a rice plantation on the Savannah River near Savannah, Georgia, where the cabins of enslaved people once stood. It is dated around 1907, a time when many Black families in the region still lived in former slave quarters and worked the land as tenants or wage laborers. The photograph came from the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced widely sold views of towns, landscapes and tourist sites. Its catalog subjects, including slave quarters, show how the firm recorded the plantation, and the family's presence before the camera is worth studying alongside that framing.

Created / published[1907?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Group portraits.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4170" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034666. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Structures. Families. Plantations. Slave quarters.United States--Georgia--Savannah.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67502

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